Donald Trump says US needs 'good old global warming' to cope with snow burying east coast
Donald Trump said America would benefit from “a little bit of that good old global warming” as much of the US has been inundated with snow and subjected to frigid weather.

“In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record,” the President said in a tweet
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/ameri...-of-dollars-a8132496.html

THE STABLE STATIONARY VALUE OF THE EARTH’S
GLOBAL AVERAGE ATMOSPHERIC PLANCK-WEIGHTED
GREENHOUSE-GAS OPTICAL THICKNESS
Ferenc M. Miskolczi
3 Holston Lane, Hampton VA 23664, USA
ABSTRACT
By the line-by-line method, a computer program is used to analyze Earth
atmospheric radiosonde data from hundreds of weather balloon observations. In
terms of a quasi-all-sky protocol, fundamental infrared atmospheric radiative flux
components are calculated: at the top boundary, the outgoing long wave radiation,
the surface transmitted radiation, and the upward atmospheric emittance; at the
bottom boundary, the downward atmospheric emittance. The partition of
the outgoing long wave radiation into upward atmospheric emittance and surface
transmitted radiation components is based on the accurate computation of the true
greenhouse-gas optical thickness for the radiosonde data. New relationships
among the flux components have been found and are used to construct a quasi-all-
sky model of the earth’s atmospheric energy transfer process. In the 1948-2008
time period the global average annual mean true greenhouse-gas optical thickness
is found to be time-stationary. Simulated radiative no-feedback effects of
measured actual CO
2
change over the 61 years were calculated and found to be of
magnitude easily detectable by the empirical data and analytical methods used.
The data negate increase in CO
2
in the atmosphere as a hypothetical cause for the
apparently observed global warming. A hypothesis of significant positive
feedback by water vapor effect on atmospheric infrared absorption is also negated
by the observed measurements. Apparently major revision of the physics
underlying the greenhouse effect is needed.
INTRODUCTION
A key parameter in the study of the planetary greenhouse effect is the absorbed
amount,
A
A
, of the surface upward infrared radiation,
S
U
. Greenhouse gas molecules
absorb and emit the infrared radiation of the atmosphere. It has been proposed (Hansen
et al. [1]; Ramanathan [2]; Bony et al. [3]) that increase of atmospheric CO
2
concentration causes persistent increase of the greenhouse effect, because proposed
increase in absorption of surface upward radiation outweighs possible increase in
emission of atmospheric radiation to space, with particular reference to water vapour
feedback, which they say is positive

https://friendsofscience.org/assets/documents...1_4_2010_08-miskolczi.pdf

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High Profile German Climatologist Blasts Global Warming As ‘Politicogenic’ …’Clever Propaganda’

By P Gosselin on 29. December 2017
Retired German climatologist Dr. Werner Kirstein recently spoke on the topic of climate change before a packed audience at the 14th Anti-Censorship Conference (AZK) last November, blasting the politicization of climate science and taking issue on how data are (mis)handled and deceitfully presented to the publichttp://notrickszone.com/2017/12/29/high-profi...ogenic-clever-propaganda/

Make 2018 a great year
Dave---
I hope you have Happy New year!!
And all is well on your side of the pond!!
your friend in Virginia---

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas...met-office-names-11940908

When did the UK start naming storms?

Although storms have been battering Britain since the dawn of time, the Met Office has only recently started to name them. Storm Abigail became the UK’s first named storm in November 2015, before Desmond, Gertrude and Imogen wreaked havoc across the region over the winter.

Why are storms being given names?
Storms are being named to raise public awareness of weather events, the Met office has said.

Otherwise we would just get on with life with it being a bit blowy outside like we have always done and wouldn't have to put up with the hyped up terror of storms arriving off the Atlantic

The Horror !!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42538533

"Power cuts and disruption to other services may occur, and there is a small chance of transport disruption or cancellation of public transport," the warning added.

No not the small chance of some public transport being cancelled !!!

Please please set up a kickstarter to get much needed aid to those who have had their hats blown off

Wish me well as we hunker down to face Storm Eleanor

With a bit of luck I might survive and be back to continue to post .... sorry about that

Dave